Application of a Genetic Algorithm to Optimal Operation of Hydropower Station

This paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) for optimal operation of hydropower station.The GA uses a population of points at a time in contrast to the single-point approach by the traditional ones, and will guarantee to find the global optimum.The GA has the benef it of greatly reduced memory requirements, and does not need problem derivative.It is a good adaptive stochastic search method.A case study is given.